HI, ladies!!
It is Thursday, December 11, 2008, today, and has been another sunny day.
I’ll try care + some preposition
I was very selfish, and didn’t care about other people.
I promise I’ll take good care of your camera.
I don’t like this hat because I don’t care for the color.
I have to care for those elderly people.
I don’t care what happens now.
…See you next, bye!!
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Hi, ladies!!!
How are you doing today, my lovely friends? Is everything going well with you?
Last year, as you are well aware, I spent the whole autumn and winter as an invalid who was almost dead due to my cervical vertebra hernia, which was unbelievably painful. I could not send any Christmas cards except one for Jean, an Italian-American lady friend of mine, with whom I have been exchanging Christmas cards in more than 30 years. I also could not make any new year cards simply because I did not have the physical strength to do that (I was not mentally depressed, which was good), and so I asked my daughter, who was at that time with us, helping me with house work, to make and send them for me, which she willingly did.
But this year I already sent my Christmas cards along with short letters to friends mainly living overseas and made new year cards, which are ready to be sent on 15th of this month. I am extremely happy about what I have done so far.
I may have another hernia unless I take a good care of myself, and so I try not to work till late at night but have a rest after dinner or go to bed early. A couple of weeks ago, perhaps, I got a set of 6 Oprah Winfrey Show DVDs. You know what??? I just cannot turn off the player. I kept watching the shows on one DVD after another, and it seems that I am totally addicted to her show DVDs. It’s so easy to get into her shows, which are incredibly fantastic and amazing.
Most of her uniquely humanized stories on the show are so moving and impressive. Her interviews with super celebrities are just funny and tremendously entertaining. She deals with serious social issues straightforwardly, especially racial segregation, and presents hilarious makeovers and dream come true shows involving a lot of her audience. We can laugh a lot and cry a lot. That is what her shows are all about. (Her shows keep me awake, consequently, till late at night.) Her English is so clear and easy to understand that I am planning to deploy a few segments of one of her shows for my students in my English classes.
Well, it is getting dark. (Have you noticed that the daytime is getting shorter day by day?) I will get ready for supper soon, my precious friends. Have a fantastic Thursday evening…
Dear friends,
It is another beautiful day, isn't it. I watched Nobel Award Ceremony on TV. It was so gorgeous and magnificent. I am so proud of these Japanese scientists. One of them, Mr. Masukawa is very funny and friendly. I am always amused with his comments. Today I foud that his wife's comment is as interesting as his. When she was asked if he was nervous at the beginning of the ceremony, she said,"Sonna tama dewa nai". I wonder if I can translate it properly. Like husband, like wife.
See you!
Hi, Ladies.
It’s Thursday. It was sunny and warm, which was good for me.
There is a big magnolia tree standing on the corner of my small garden. It’s a deciduous tree, so that big, brown, and dead leaves are scattered about on the ground. While I am raking them up, another leaves started falling by the wind.
Yet, it’s sometimes fun to collect those leaves. I was really able to sense the late autumn. It’s also fabulous to view a small maple tree still having a burning red color in my yard.
It’s a little story of my yard.
Hi, ladies!!!
Did you have a good day today? I did. I did have a wonderful day today, receiving year-end gifts delivered to us one after another. One of them was, surprisingly enough, a gift set of Chinese softshell turtle chops (suppon in Japanese), from a person who acted a go-between for the wedding of my son and his wife. There are a number of turtle farms in Ohita, and even my son once got so interested in running a turtle farm, which I argued against, since I thought it was too risky a business.
I once tried (actually I was forced to try) to eat turtle chops and slices at a restaurant, being invited with my husband by my daughter-in-law’s parents, when we visited my son and his wife living in Ohita. All the turtle dishes tasted extremely strange to me, probably because I was imagining, unconsciously, live turtles crawling here and there. Yuck!!! Of course, I did not say that, since it is tremendously impolite to express a detestation of turtle dishes in Ohita.
Virtually there are very weird local specialties in Kyushu such as suppon in Ohita, raw horsemeat (basashi) in Kumamoto, and black pig meat (or just pork) in Kagoshima. They are all horrible to me. Especially I simply cannot stand basashi in Kumamoto. I always made up a lot of excuses not to eat it whenever I was invited and recommended to eat it.
I normally insisted that I was sick and tired of horsemeat since I ate too much of it as a child. Horsemeat was the cheapest among all the different meat sold at shops in Kumamoto when I lived there as a child, and it is true my mother cooked horsemeat for supper practically every evening, though we never ate horsemeat raw.
My son, my son’s wife and all her family love turtle dishes as much as I love sushi. My husband is also crazy about turtle dishes. I just cannot believe their enormous appetite for turtle dishes. Why do they have to eat turtles, since we have so many different kinds of delicious food at hand?
I was tricked into drinking turtle blood. Owwwww… I almost threw it up, but thank goodness I could swallow it. Actually I was told it was red wine. (My daughter-in-law and her family members are all good drinkers but I am not.)
Now there are several bags of turtle chops in the fridge. What am I supposed to do with them? No worry. My husband will eat them up. All I have to do is to try to make him cook them on his own. Whew… that’s a good idea. (I would rather die than cook turtles.)
It is almost time my husband gets home, my lovely friends. Have a fascinating Friday evening. Night, night…
Hi, ladies.
It’s Saturday. It’s a fine day with a blue sky.
Yesterday I was invited to Anne’s World by Yuko Matsumoto, a writer and translator at Chunichi Culture Center. She gave a fabulous presentation about “ Anne of Green Gables” making full use of pictures, DVD, a reading of a poem. Her sophisticated and familiar way of speaking drew our attention, making one and a half hours session pass so quickly.
The age when Anne lived was in the Victorian era. Several poems by Tennyson and John Whittier were quoated in Anne's book. A very familiar name I heard from the speaker—that is Caroline Norton. Yes, she married the aristocracy, having unhappy nine years of marriage. She sued for divorce, fighting for custody of a child. Caroline also published her anthology. One of her poets appeared in the story of Anne.
Another finding for me,but not for othes, was that the Celt and Briton have black hair and brown eyes, while Anglos-Saxon have blue eyes and blonde just like Dianna.
Finnally, I chose a beautiful book with various beautiful pictures of flowers, houses and sceneries with a comment on“ Anne of Green Gables”
Rose, thank you for letting me know this wonderful lecture.
Hi Cherry and friends,
It is a beautiful day, today.
I attended Yuko Matsumoto’s lecture “English literature behind the Ann of Green Gables” and had a really great time with Sunflower. This was the second time for me to attend this kind of lecture and the theme of the last time was “Shakespeare behind the Ann of Green Gables,” which I introduced before in this blog.
The lecturer, Yuko Matsumoto, introduced the story of the second and third volume as well as “Ann of Green Gables.” I felt as if I were in the Prince Edward Island with Ann because her fascinating story telling brought me the romantic world and attracted me. She also explained the history of England. Because the background of this novel is Canada, however, the story related to Christianity and England in many parts and there are so many quotations from old English poems, such as Tennyson’s, Whittier’s and Caroline Norton’s. It was so fun to know how Montgomery used those poems in her novel as parody. What a highly intellectual lady she is! Oh, I want to know much more about Montgomery and Ann’s world.
I’m running out of time. I have too many things to do within a few days. One of them is, of cause, to write about Kamiya Mieko. I now have a headache and stomachache and I’m almost crying. I think I need to relax a little bit before I’m in panic.
I hope you are having a nice day. My precious friend.
Reiko
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Sunday, December 14, 2008, today, and interesting enough it was raining lightly early in the morning but the rain lifted eventually. After breakfast I asked my husband to clear up all the fallen leaves in the front yard, but he told me that the leaves were all wet and that it was nearly impossible to clear them up. OK. You are right, and I agree with you. Wet leaves are so stuck that we cannot gather them up, I know.
Then, around 10:30 senior members began to get to my house for the discussion of their essay projects. Those who attended today’s session are:
Yasuko san,
Alice,
Gloriosa,
Cosmos,
Sunflower,
Magnolia and me.
Yasuko san remarked that she had a touch of cold and would like to go home as soon as possible, and thus we examined her essay plan first and she left. Magnolia mentioned that she had to leave after lunch ‘cause she would have some visitors at home, and therefore we talked about her essay project following the discussion of Sunflower’s essay scheme.
Essay writing in English is, in fact, very difficult. I have no objection to it. Finishing today’s session, Alice remarked half jokingly that she had not got yet used to English essay writing although she thought that she would in a few years when she began to try it for the first time.
I do understand how you, Alice, feel about essay writing very well. Persevere, Alice. That’s what you have to do now. Probably, after you write 500 pages, you will have less difficulty in essay writing.
I am very happy to hear that Gloriosa, Alice and Sunflower are going to attend a lecture given by Vera Mackie at Nagoya Uni. next Sunday. I really respect and admire Vera Mackie for her strenuous efforts in her research into Japanese women and society before the Pacific War. She is an eminent, first class scholar, and it is definitely worth listening to her.
It’s getting late, my lovely friends. Have a goodnight sleep…
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